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Chronicles the friendship between an American girl and her pen pal from Zimbabwe, discussing how a class assignment was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives.

Symphony for the city of the dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the siege of Leningrad

Anderson, M. T., author.

An account of the Siege of Leningrad reveals the role played by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony in rallying and commemorating their fellow citizens.

The Nazi hunters : how a team of spies and survivors captured the world's most notorious Nazi

Bascomb, Neal, author.

Recounts how, sixteen years after the end of World War II, a team of undercover Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in a remote area of Argentina and brought him to trial in Israel for crimes committed during the Holocaust.

A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier

Beah, Ishmael, 1980-

A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.

Columbine

Cullen, David, 1961-

Discusses the school shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, reflecting on the killers' histories and on the portrayal of the event by the media.

Taking flight : from war orphan to star ballerina

DePrince, Michaela, author.

"The memoir of Michaela DePrince, who lived the first few years of her live in war-torn Sierra Leone until being adopted by an American Family. Now seventeen, she is one of the premiere ballerinas in the United States"--

102 minutes : the unforgettable story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers

Dwyer, Jim, 1957-

A 10th-anniversary revised edition of a National Book Award finalist traces the hours following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center to reveal the first-hand experiences of survivors, in a volume that draws on oral reports, e-mails, radio transcripts and cell-phone conversations. Reprint.

The family Romanov : murder, rebellion, and the fall of imperial Russia

Fleming, Candace, author.

Traces the story of the Russian Revolution, the lives of the Romanov family and the story of their tragic deaths, in an account that draws on primary source materials and includes period photography.

Rocket boys : a memoir

Hickam, Homer H., 1943-

The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite "Sputnik"

Moonbird : a year on the wind with the great survivor B95

Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-

Documents the survival tale of an intrepid shorebird who has endured annual migrations between Argentina and the Canadian Arctic throughout the course of a long lifetime while his species continues to decline.

Courage & defiance : stories of spies, saboteurs, and survivors in World War II Denmark

Hopkinson, Deborah.

Brings to bold life the remarkable story of the Danish resistance and rescue of over 7,000 Jews during WWII.

The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope

Kamkwamba, William, 1987-

A true story of tenacity and imagination describes how an African teenager built a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his home and his village, improving life for himself and his neighbors.

The Darwin Awards next evolution : chlorinating the gene pool

Northcutt, Wendy.

Features examples of people whose lack of common sense resulted in their demise, in a tribute to how the evolutionary process is improved when individuals of questionable intelligence accidentally remove themselves from the gene pool.

A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive

Pelzer, David J.

The story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother.

The hot zone

Preston, Richard, 1954-

Describes how a strain of lethal virus showed up in 1989 at a Virginia laboratory, and relates the efforts of a military biohazard SWAT team to identify and contain the virus

Positive : surviving my bullies, finding hope, and living to change the world --a memoir

Rawl, Paige.

"A teenager's memoir of the experinces of bullying, being HIV positive and surviving the experiences to become a force for positive change in this world"--

Records the struggles and sufferings of a team of young Uruguayan rugby players as they battled for survival during the ten weeks following an airplane crash in the Andes, in a harrowing, true-life adventure.

The unthinkable : who survives when disaster strikes-- and why

Ripley, Amanda.

Offers a glimpse at disasters and their aftermath, describing the three stages of disaster response, how we react--or do not react--in moments of catastrophe, and how we can train ourselves and other victims to survive in the event of a disaster.

The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights

Sheinkin, Steve.

Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.

Touching the void

Simpson, Joe.

The author relates his nearly fatal adventures mountaineering in the Andes, adventures that included a fall into a crevice, broken limbs, and return to safety.

Chasing Lincoln's killer

Swanson, James L.

Recounts the escape of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, and follows the intensive twelve-day search for him and his accomplices.

Chronicles the brutality of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, from the author's forced "evacuation" of Phnom Penh in 1975 to her family's subsequent movements from town to town and eventual separation.

I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban

Yousafzai, Malala, 1997- author.

Describes the life of a young Pakistani student who advocated for women's rights and education in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley who survived an assassination attempt and became the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dead Mountain : the true story of the Dyatlov Pass incident

Eichar, Donnie, author.

The author attempts to unravel the mystery behind a group of nine hikers whose baffling deaths in the Russina Ural Mountains has led to decades of speculation on what happened to them.